Overview
SoftLab Laboratories was founded in 1988 by pioneer adventure game developer
William R. Fisher III. Bill Fisher developed and released his first independent, shareware game,
Last Half of Darkness, for MS-DOS in 1989.
SoftLab released several other games in the early 1990s including
The Nine Lives of Secret Agent Kat, an RPG/adventure with an espionage plot.
The company was called
William R. Fisher III Studios in 1994 when the game
The Romantic Blue was commercially released on CD-ROM (published by
CrystalVision Software). Also released that year was the shareware game
Death by Dark Shadows.
In 2000, an updated version of
Last Half of Darkness was released for Windows on CD-ROM, developed and published by
WRF Studios.
The company continues to develop and publish games in the
Last Half of Darkness franchise.
Also Known As
- SoftLab Laboratories (from 1990 to 1993)
- William R. Fisher III Studios (from 1994 to 1999)
Games
Trivia
Company location and contact information (2007):
WRF Studios
William R. Fisher
4520 Clairemont Mesa Blvd.
San Diego, CA 92117
Phone: (858) 216 -6007
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